A couple of weeks back, I stumbled upon this article from HuffPo.
The article reports about a letter written by the genius Kurt Vonnegut to a high school class back in 2006. The letter is, no less, filled with with just the right wit at just the right timing. A charming piece of correspondence that says so much about the man.
A year after he wrote that letter, he died.
The letter moved me in ways I didn't expect. The way it captured - so swiftly, so casually - what it is exactly that draws a lot of us into creating...to art, to our hobbies - to things that move us yet, we don't know why. (And has caused a lot of existential crisis for all of us, drama queens.) It is, simply to, "experience becoming".
To that, I offer a short prayer.
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A Prayer From A Writer
I was reading this letter written by a famous writer
Who, by now, lives six feet under
But, in his glory days, must have been the best lover.
After reading his letter, I have been repeating this prayer:
“Dearie,
Experience becoming.
Now and later.”
They say we should listen to the old and wiser,
So, his words, I’ll hold dear - now and forever.
The article reports about a letter written by the genius Kurt Vonnegut to a high school class back in 2006. The letter is, no less, filled with with just the right wit at just the right timing. A charming piece of correspondence that says so much about the man.
A year after he wrote that letter, he died.
The letter moved me in ways I didn't expect. The way it captured - so swiftly, so casually - what it is exactly that draws a lot of us into creating...to art, to our hobbies - to things that move us yet, we don't know why. (And has caused a lot of existential crisis for all of us, drama queens.) It is, simply to, "experience becoming".
To that, I offer a short prayer.
**************************************
A Prayer From A Writer
I was reading this letter written by a famous writer
Who, by now, lives six feet under
But, in his glory days, must have been the best lover.
After reading his letter, I have been repeating this prayer:
“Dearie,
Experience becoming.
Now and later.”
They say we should listen to the old and wiser,
So, his words, I’ll hold dear - now and forever.